Formula 1

10:52 AM ET BAKU, Azerbaijan — Max Verstappen says he is not motivated by winning a record number of Formula One titles by the end of his career and is instead tempted by racing in other categories of motorsport when his Red Bull contract expires. The current record for the most championship victories is jointly

10:41 AM ET Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton are among the drivers excited by the challenge of Formula One’s tweaked sprint race rules, which are set to run for the first time at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. This weekend’s Baku event will be the first of six sprints in 2023, featuring an extra qualifying session

7:40 AM ET BAKU, Azerbaijan — Charles Leclerc has denied reports he has held preliminary talks with Mercedes about the possibility of switching teams if Lewis Hamilton decides to retire at the end of the season. A report in the Italian publication Quotidiano Nazionale said it was “an open secret” that Leclerc was in talks

12:23 PM ET Ferrari sporting director Laurent Mekies will replace Franz Tost as boss of the AlphaTauri Formula One team after the 2023 season. Mekies will take over as team principal on a date yet to be determined, with long-serving boss Tost moving into a consultancy role. AlphaTauri, Red Bull’s second F1 team, will also

10:40 AM ET Formula One will have its first sprint race weekend of the 2023 season at Baku’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix this weekend, albeit with a tweaked format to how it ran in 2021 and 2022. The sprint race was introduced to spice up certain races, offering venues the chance to effectively have three days

8:51 AM ET The Azerbaijan Grand Prix will be the first race to feature a re-jigged sprint format, which was signed off at a meeting of the F1 Commission on Tuesday. Sprint weekends will now feature two qualifying sessions, one to set the grid for a shortened sprint race on Saturday and another to set

5:15 AM ET Associated Press A German publisher has sacked one of its magazine’s editors and apologized to the family of Michael Schumacher for publishing a fake interview with the Formula One great that was generated by artificial intelligence. Tabloid magazine Die Aktuelle ran a front cover spread promising an exclusive interview with Schumacher, who

8:14 AM ET James Allison has returned to the role of technical director at the Mercedes Formula One team after switching jobs with Mike Elliott. Team boss Toto Wolff confirmed the news in an interview with Autosport, saying the decision came from Elliott, who took on the role of technical director when Allison became chief

5:44 AM ET Claire Williams has launched a new charitable initiative in memory of her father, legendary team boss Frank Williams. He was the founder of the team which still shares his name and remains one of F1’s most successful team bosses, overseeing seven drivers’ championships and nine constructors’ championships. Williams, who died in 2021,

1:27 PM ET Michael Schumacher’s family plans to take legal action against a German magazine that ran an AI-generated interview with the Formula One legend. German outlet Die Aktuelle ran a front cover spread promising an exclusive interview with Schumacher, who has not been seen in public since suffering a serious brain injury in a